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METACOGNITION [6 records]

Record 1 2024-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
CONT

A constructivist account of learning ... describes a learner as doing some task, and also as reflecting upon the task and the learning. Such an account fits well ... especially with the importance we see for the development of metacognitive skills, for which the "reflecting upon" is vital.

CONT

Two recent trends in ITS ((intelligent tutoring system)) research ... are a greater emphasis on cognitive and metacognitive skill acquisition, and a move towards providing a wider range of interaction styles.

OBS

See metaknowledge, metacognition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
CONT

Comportement d'auto-estimation de la compétence : capacité métacognitive d'une personne.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
CONT

Feeling of knowing(FOK) is a research paradigm that has led to much debate over the character of metacognition. People often experienced FOK as a tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, when they’re not able to retrieve an item from memory, but feel that they should be.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
CONT

Il est vrai que l'on peut aussi «ne pas savoir» en sachant parfaitement que l'on sait comme, par exemple, dans le «sentiment de savoir» ou le «mot-sur-le-bout-de-la-langue» [...] dans ce cas, le traitement dans le module d'accès lexical est interrompu alors qu'une forme de connaissance, implicite mais sans doute de haut niveau est encore accessible [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
CONT

A production deficiency suggests that a student may have the ability to use the mediation strategy or another strategy but fails to spontaneously and appropriately produce it. For these children, prompting and training in metacognition and related processes might prove helpful.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
CONT

Selon cette conception, les jeunes enfants n'auraient pas recours aux stratégies, comme l'autorépétition, car elles ne conduisent pas à un meilleur rappel. D'autre part, les jeunes enfants emploieraient rarement ces stratégies à cause d'une déficience de production [...] D'après cette explication, le problème serait que les enfants ne choisissent pas d'utiliser la stratégie, même si elle est susceptible d'améliorer la mémoire.

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

The capability to think about one’s own thought processes.

CONT

Thus we can have beliefs, hopes, fears, etc : not only about external facts, but also about other beliefs, hopes, or fears. I call such thinking metacognition, to signal its special status, as cognition about cognitions.

CONT

Meta-cognition refers to the "how to study" model which the student uses to guide his interaction with the instructional system being used.

CONT

... we might jump to the level of metacognition, involving reflection on problem-solving itself...

CONT

... this methodology does not systematically investigate other unresolved issues such as the issue of... what is the influence of the students’ metacognition about their own perceptions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Processus mental dont l'objet est soit une activité cognitive, soit un ensemble d'activités cognitives que le sujet vient d'effectuer ou est en train d'effectuer, soit un produit mental de ces activités cognitives.

CONT

La métacognition peut aboutir à un jugement (habituellement non exprimé) sur la qualité des activités mentales en question ou de leur produit et éventuellement à une décision de modifier l'activité cognitive, son produit ou même la situation qui l'a suscitée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología (Generalidades)
  • Teorías y métodos pedagógicos
  • Inteligencia artificial
DEF

Conocimiento de los propios procesos cognitivos, de los resultados de estos procesos y de cualquier aspecto que se relacione con ellos, supone una reflexión sobre el propio aprendizaje.

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Record 5 1994-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

The skill and knowledge possessed by some humans that result in performance far above the norm. Expertise often consists of massive amounts of information combined with rules-of-thumb, simplifications, rare facts, and wise procedures in such a way that one can analyze specific types of problems in an efficient manner.

DEF

The set of capabilities that underlies the high performance of human experts, including extensive domain knowledge, heuristic rules that simplify and improve approaches to problem-solving, metaknowledge and metacognition, and compiled forms of behavior that afford great economy in skilled performance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Compétence d'expert.

OBS

Propre à une personne, appelée expert, qui possède des habiletés et de la connaissance analytique dépassant la norme habituelle sur un domaine particulier. Un expert est capable de résoudre mieux et plus rapidement que quiconque un problème relatif à son domaine d'expertise. Il est aussi capable de détecter un nouveau problème de son domaine.

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Record 6 1989-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
OBS

See reflexive model, metacognition, abstract replay.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
OBS

Voir autoréférence.

Spanish

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